Making a hardcopy of the directory is often practical, and using this utility will allow you to do so. A menu with five options will appear on the screen. THE SERVANT offers a great variety of ways to print the directory for your convenience.
As you select any of the printing options, the directory will be loaded from the disk and the printing will commence. The printer must be a Commodore or compatible printer connected to the serial port as device 4, or any other printer connected to the serial port via a suitable interface. If a printer is not active on the serial bus, you'll hear a bell tone and the menu is redisplayed. After the printer output is finished, you'll be returned to the print menu, and you can immediately select from the menu again to print the directory from another disk.
Two columns:
Displays the directory in two columns. In addition to the information normally contained in a directory listing, the start Track (T) and Sector (S) is displayed for each file. All file types will be displayed. Positions in the directory without files of any kind is listed as "- Empty slot -". This will normally occur at the end of the directory.
2 col load addr:
Similar to the above, but instead of the track and sector display, the load address of program files will be listed in hexadecimal format.
Wide output:
This option displays the same information as by the "Two columns" option. In addition, all information in the directory which is normally hidden from the user is displayed. This includes:
USR files: For GEOS files, the following information is provided: "IT" and "IS" is the track and sector of the Info/Icon block. This is the disk block which contains the file's icon, start, end and call address, author name, permanent file name and comment field. "ST" identifies the file structure; 0 for sequential and 1 for VLIR (Variable Length Indexed Record). "FT" is the GEOS file type: 0 = non-GEOS USR file, 1 = BASIC program (normally, GEOS BASIC files are PRG files, but GEOS will recognize USR files as well), 2 = Machine language (ditto as above), 3 = data file, 4 = system file, 5 = desk accessory, 6 = application, 7 = application data, 8 = font, 9 = printer driver, 10 = C64 input driver, 11 = disk driver, 12 = system boot file, 13 = temporary, 14 = auto-exec 15 = 128 input driver.
REL files: "ST" and "SS" is the track and sector of the first side sector block respectively. "RL" is record length.
CBM files: "ET" and "ES" is the End track and sector of the partition area.
Wide w/load addr:
This includes all the information in the options above; track and sector, extra info for USR, REL and CBM files, and load address (in decimal & hexadecimal notation) for PRG files.
Full file check:
In addition to the above, this option displays the length, in bytes, of all file types except REL and CBM. If the length is more than 65536 bytes, the length is output as a mathematical formula which must be resolved using a calculator. Just key in the formula shown on your calculator, and the correct length, in bytes, will appear in the calculator display. For program files the start and end address of each file is also shown.
